mpgarate

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While brave may have some good privacy aspects, it is still based on chromium.

+1 my thoughts exactly. It would be so nice if Firefox allowed tridactyl full keyboard control. With qutebrowser, having a proper control mode and an insert mode that work everywhere makes it so much easier to navigate.

I use Firefox every day as a backup, but my primary browser is qutebrowser. I would fully switch in a heartbeat if Firefox allowed full keyboard shortcut configuration. Tridactyl gets pretty close, but the fact that keyboard shortcuts stop working in certain scenarios is a nonstarter for me.

I used to use Firefox on Android but had to stop because of this issue. Too many times filling out a form, grabbing a password from a password manager, and returning to find the form blanked. When it's resolved I'll go back and try again.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731

This kind of problem is what led me to create http://justread.mpgarate.com/

Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read.

Source code: https://github.com/mpgarate/justread/ Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8319903

I had that thought at first, but I figured out how to do it.

Check the box on the left for two contacts, and then in the upper right you can click the merge icon, two arrows coming together.

I deployed a small node app with BlueMix. I did not use many of its advanced features, and it was relatively painless to get things running. I would consider using it for a bigger project in the future.

That is a nice idea. I'll have to prepare the code a bit for this but will likely do so. In that case, I will let you know.

justread is written with golang!

That is correct. justread will save you data compared to loading the original page. No javascript, ads, extra images unrelated to the article etc. It does, however, keep the images, since often they are an interesting part of an article.

This project directly uses the Readability api.

I created this as a more simple interface than Readability offers, primarily for my own personal use as a bookmarklet.

Useful for articles that have sluggish javascript behavior, span multiple pages, or are otherwise hard to read.

Example use with a TechCrunch article: http://justread.mpgarate.com/read?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunc...

Also works well as a bookmarklet:

javascript:window.location.replace("http://justread.mpgarate.com/read?url=" + escape(document.URL))

Reminds me of a little encrypted chat app I made with a friend a few weeks ago. Ours is intended for two-way communication: http://cifrachat.herokuapp.com/